The android announcement says Kotlin will also be ...

# kotlin-native

[nimtiazm]

The android announcement says Kotlin will also be supported on iOS. Is it like supported as in objc runtime ( apps can be written with Kotlin)?

[maciekjanusz]

nimtiazm: yup, LLVM is the target vm

[maciekjanusz]

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native#kotlinnative

[olonho]

Yes, apps can be written in Kotlin, for example, you could compile Tetris for iphone target, but currently, no ObjC/Swift interop is provided

[nimtiazm]

I'm aware of Tetris example and that's pretty cool. So "currently, no objc/swift interop" means it'll be provided soon?

[olonho]

yes, it is being worked on

[olonho]

@maciekjanusz: funny enough, LLVM isn't a VM, it's compiler infrastructure and Kotlin/Native runs without VM, using LLVM's codegeneration facility

[maciekjanusz]

good point! thanks for clarification